July 28, 2026
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Bruce Power’s Nuclear Security team hosted its biggest and best Inter-agency Tactical Skills Exchange Competition July 22-23, bringing together teams from industry partners and law enforcement agencies across Ontario and New Brunswick.
The dynamic event featured head-to-head competition between teams at Bruce Power’s on-site firing range. Industry vendors were also on-site, showcasing the latest gear and services tailored to law enforcement and security professionals.
Bruce Power hosted the event last year with nine teams competing and the feedback was so great that the company decided to bring it back this year with an expanded field, including 14 teams and 12 vendors, displaying and demonstrating the latest technology available for tactical use.
“We have front-line officers, in-service training and our highest level of tactical and rescue units here competing alongside our nuclear security teams from New Brunswick Power, OPG (Ontario Power Generation) and Bruce Power,” said Ken Wright. “All of the events are dynamic and competitive in nature and there’s a lot of physicality built into the activities, a lot of obstacles, with very difficult shooting platforms and targetry with all reactionary targets for both pistol and long-rifle precision shooting.”
Bruce Power noticed a lack of tactical events, especially post-COVID-19, and put together the event for competition and training for its Nuclear Security team, while also providing opportunities for other agencies.
“Feedback has been very positive,” said Wright. "We’ve got a lot of folks who have never seen anything like this before with the competition and dynamic ranges for head-to-head team events, with individual shooting events at the end of each day."
While there were winners in each day’s events, Wright said gathering in a fun and competitive format builds a lot of ties and camaraderie.
“I think we all win,” he said. “We’re building relationships, cross-functional inter-operability and collective knowledge sharing through training. When they're all performing well in a controlled training environment, they’re ideally going to execute at a high level in a real-life situation. With these types of events, we try and introduce more physicality and activity, where the heart rate is high, similar to what you could expect in a real event, so if we can replicate some of that in a training and competition setting for our competitors, we all win.”
“We’re proud of our entire Emergency and Protective Services division and its preparedness to respond to any plausible event, even if it’s unlikely,” said Jeff Steven, chief security officer and head of Emergency Preparedness and Response. “We’re also proud of our on-site facilities and having the opportunity to share them with outside agencies in a competition setting is a great advantage for everyone.”
Congratulations to OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit for earning the top overall team, and to Bruce Power Nuclear Security Team 1 (Dom Veroni, Ben Stephenson, Tyler Reiner, Lucas Garcia and James Vandusen) for being recognized as the top Nuclear Team, and third place overall.
Overall standings:
OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit -Team 2
Halton Regional Police Tactics and Rescue Unit
Bruce Power Nuclear Security Team 1
Guelph Regional Police Tactics and Rescue Unit – Team 2
Bruce Power Nuclear Security Team 2
OPP In-Service Training
Guelph Regional Police Tactics and Rescue Unit
OPP Tactics and Rescue Unit – Team 1
OPG Nuclear Security
Peel Regional Police Tactics and Rescue Unit
OPP ERT West
New Brunswick Power Nuclear Security Team
Hanover Police, Toronto Police, OPP In-Service Training (mixed team)
Chatham-Kent Tactics and Rescue Unit (participated in only one day)
Officers compete during the Inter-agency Tactical Skills Exchange Competition hosted by Bruce Power, July 22-23
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